from Ir. and E. _bog_.

BUGIL, BUGILL, _s._ A buglehorn.

_Douglas._

Q. _buculae cornu_, the horn of a young cow; or from Teut.

_boghel_, Germ. _bugel_, curvatura.

BUICK, _pret._ Court"sied; from the v. _Beck_.

_Ross._

_To_ BUIGE, _v. n._ To bow, to creenge.

_Maitland Poems._

A. S. _bug-an_, to bend.

BUIK, _s._ The body.

V. ~Bouk~.

BUIK, BUKE, _pret._ Baked.

_Dunbar._

A. S. _boc_, c.o.xit, from _bac-an_.

BUIK, BUK, BUKE, _s._ A book, S.

_Dunbar._

Germ. _buch_, Alem. _bouch_, Belg. _boek_, A. S. _boc_, Moes. G.

Isl. Su. G. _bok_, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made, _bok_ signifying a beech-tree.

~Buik-lare~, _s._ Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.

~Buik-lear"d~, ~Book-lear"d~, _adj._ Book-learned, S.

_A. Nicol._

Isl. _boklaerd-ur_, id.

V. ~Lare~, _v._ and _s._

BUIR, Leg. Leuir.

_Wallace._

BUISE, _To shoot the buise._

_Cleland._

Apparently, _to swing_, to be hanged; perhaps from Ital. _busco_, the shoot of a tree.

BUIST, _s._ A part of female dress, anciently worn in S.

_Maitland Poems._

Fr. _busq_, or _buste_, plated body, or other quilted thing, worn to make or keep the body straight. Ital. _busto_, stays or boddice.

BUIST, BUSTE, BOIST, _s._

1. A box or chest, S. _Meal-buist_, chest for containing meal.

_Acts Ja. II._

2. A coffin; nearly antiquated, but still sometimes used by tradesmen, Loth.

O. Fr. _boiste_, Arm. _bouest_, a box.

_To_ ~Buist~ _up_, _v. a._ To inclose, to shut up.

_Montgomerie._

~Buist-maker~, _s._ A coffin-maker, Loth.; a term now nearly obsolete.

BUISTY, _s._ A bed, Aberd.

_Gl. Shirr._ used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box.

V. ~Booshty~.

BUITH, _s._ A shop.

V. ~Bothe~.

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